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(C) Copyright 2017 Owen Sound Sun TimesMan of action, questionable resultshttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/09/22/man-of-action-questionable-results
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:52:01 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/09/22/man-of-action-questionable-resultsUpper Canada, Canada West and Ontario — different names for the same place. It was built by a wide range of characters: surveyors, soldiers, politicians, miners, entrepreneurs, scrappers and showmen.Why Macdonald looms doubly large in Ontario historyhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/06/30/why-macdonald-looms-doubly-large-in-ontario-history
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 16:34:27 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/06/30/why-macdonald-looms-doubly-large-in-ontario-historySir John A. Macdonald was not only the country’s first prime minister; he was also the last premier of Canada West, what Ontario was called before Confederation.West dupes in extremists' strategy to gain powerhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/31/west-dupes-in-extremists-strategy-to-gain-power
Wed, 31 May 2017 18:22:29 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/31/west-dupes-in-extremists-strategy-to-gain-powerAfter every major terrorist attack by Islamist terrorists in a Western country, there follows a familiar debate about who is really to blame.Name recognition low for new Tory leader Andrew Scheerhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/29/name-recognition-low-for-new-tory-leader-andrew-scheer
Mon, 29 May 2017 20:27:15 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/29/name-recognition-low-for-new-tory-leader-andrew-scheer"Andrew who? We've picked the second coming of Joe Clark."Trump's sharing of intel with Russians a disasterhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/trumps-sharing-of-intel-with-russians-a-disaster
Wed, 17 May 2017 18:27:48 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/trumps-sharing-of-intel-with-russians-a-disasterThe president of the United States is very powerful. The so-called leader of the free world has a lot of influence and a great deal of leeway in deciding what to say and do. Donald Trump is exercising this freedom to the max.Trump's dysfunction cannot be containedhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/trumps-dysfunction-cannot-be-contained
Wed, 17 May 2017 18:26:33 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/trumps-dysfunction-cannot-be-containedAll the talk of special prosecutors and the like will not bring the man to book. No amount of dysfunction in the White House will make it stop until early 2019 at best, even though a great deal of damage will have been done by then.Ambrose's winning ways merit praisehttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/ambroses-winning-ways-merit-praise
Wed, 17 May 2017 18:22:50 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/17/ambroses-winning-ways-merit-praiseWhen interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose took to the stage at the annual parliamentary press gallery dinner last year, the slightly loosened-up audience of scribes braced for a letdown. They had just been treated to an entertaining speech by the country's charismatic new prime minister, including a yoga demonstration by his wife. Ambrose wouldGlobalist trend favours Quebec's ruling Liberalshttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/16/globalist-trend-favours-quebecs-ruling-liberals
Tue, 16 May 2017 18:31:35 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/16/globalist-trend-favours-quebecs-ruling-liberalsIt's no surprise most of Quebec's largely nationalist political class kept its distance from France's defeated far-right presidential candidate.Liberals like an octopus trying to roller skatehttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/liberals-like-an-octopus-trying-to-roller-skate
Mon, 15 May 2017 17:49:47 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/liberals-like-an-octopus-trying-to-roller-skateHere's how one of the cable-news experts last week described the job of observing the White House fumbling to explain the FBI director firing.Is French about to make international comeback?http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/is-french-about-to-make-international-comeback
Mon, 15 May 2017 17:46:17 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/is-french-about-to-make-international-comebackThis month, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivered a speech at the annual state of the union conference in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. The theme of the gathering was "Building a People's Europe." Canada must keep watch as North Korea arms itselfhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/canada-must-keep-watch-as-north-korea-arms-itself
Mon, 15 May 2017 17:42:12 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/15/canada-must-keep-watch-as-north-korea-arms-itselfOver the weekend North Korea conducted its most successful missile test to date. This is a threat not just to the region and the United States, but Canada as well.Forget about Trump, worry about Trudeau http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/14/forget-about-trump-worry-about-trudeau
Sun, 14 May 2017 18:00:00 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/14/forget-about-trump-worry-about-trudeauIf Canada’s chattering classes can tear themselves away from Donald Trump for a moment, have they noticed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stopped answering even the most basic and reasonable questions in Parliament?Adding some facts into the nuclear waste and DGR discussionhttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/03/adding-some-facts-into-the-nuclear-waste-and-dgr-discussion
Wed, 03 May 2017 13:24:06 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/03/adding-some-facts-into-the-nuclear-waste-and-dgr-discussionOne of the most popular terms used today in
media commentary during various policy
debates is ‘alternative facts.’Why don’t anti-fascists fight Islamofascism?http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/02/why-dont-anti-fascists-fight-islamofascism
Wed, 03 May 2017 07:24:46 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/02/why-dont-anti-fascists-fight-islamofascismSeventy-two years ago this Friday, on
May 5, 1945, Hitler’s fascist dream of
a “Thousand Year Reich” lay in ruins,
as Berlin fell to the Red Army, only to
find the ashes of the “Fuhrer” who had
shot himself five days earlier.Harjit Sajjan is all hat and no cattlehttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/02/harjit-sajjan-is-all-hat-and-no-cattle
Tue, 02 May 2017 17:47:29 EDThttp://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2017/05/02/harjit-sajjan-is-all-hat-and-no-cattleHarjit Sajjan, the minister of National Defence, needs to resign from his post over what he is now calling his “mistake” taking credit for planning a major campaign against the Taliban when he was serving in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s.